Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hyde Park: Personal recollections of Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Hudson River Valley was in my husband's blood. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's family owned land in and around Poughkeepsie and along the banks of the Hudson River for four generations, but even before that his Roosevelt ancestors lived just a bit farther down the Hudson River. His mother's father built a home new Newburgh, N. Y., and she grew up there; so the river in all of its aspects and the countryside as a whole were familiar and deeply rooted in my husband's consciousness......."